BAZE FOCUS MAGAZINE (2022 CONVOCATION EDITION)

BAZE UNIVERSITY- ABOUT US

-Our Mission-

To establish and maintain a most suitable academic environment, synergizing world class human capital and best technology for creating and imparting knowledge to develop and modernize the Nigerian society.

-Our Vision-

To be a distinctive quality-based educational institution, making a difference in the nation's history through the positive impact of its services and its graduate output.

BAZE UNIVERSITY ANTHEM ©

1st Stanza Baze University

Right in the city of unity

Raise the banner with Pride and dignity

Over the hills, the land and sea Driven by excellence, hard work and diligence And our reach is high above the skies.

Chorus

Shine on Baze University

Ever shining as the morning sun Marching on to glory Learn to lead and learn to live ….. shine on, shine on, shine on… …….Baze University…...

2nd Stanza

We are a University With a unique history, Seeking wisdom and honor With the power of Knowledge Technology in reality Arts and the sciences Making giants strides Blazing the trail and setting the pace.

Chorus

Shine on Baze University

Ever shining as the morning sun Marching on to glory

Learn to lead and learn to live ….. shine on, shine on, shine on… …….Baze University……..

TABLE OF CONTENTS

S/N ITEM

About Us and Baze Anthem 1

Table of Contents 2

Editorial Desk 3

Founder’s Note 4

Happy Homecoming to Our Alumni 5

Members of the Board of Trustees 6

Principal Officers 7

Headship of Faculties and Departments 8

In Pursuit of Academic Excellence Staff Currently on International Training 9

Promotion is not given but Earned 9 Collaborations with Private Sector Baze University & Dominion Blockchain Lab 10

IT Collaboration with the Private Sector Baze University & Domineum AI Blockchain 11

Baze University Highfliers 12

Pro Chancellor’s Scholarship: Two More Awardees 13=14

Update from Academic Planning New Approvals in the Kitty 15

Update from Academic Planning Study at Baze 16

The Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Reaching New Heights 17 19

Faculty of Engineering Large scale electrification planning for increasing renewable energy access in Nigeria A Geographic Information System (GIS) Model 20 22

Baze Laboratories 23 24

Final Year Students’ Field Trip in the Department of Biological Sciences 25 28

Faculty of Environmental Sciences Research Collaborations and Innovations 29 30

Faculty of Management & Social Sciences On the move 31 32

CFIS Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development 33

The Faculty of Law The flagship at Baze 34 39

The Art of Reading and the Library 40 41

Best of Baze University Panorama: Editor’s Photo Gallery

Faculty Libraries 42

Baze University Hospital Now Open for Business 43 Students’ Pastoral Care It is Robust 44 46

Baze Focus Interview Best of the Aces 47 48

Parenting Skills for the Twenty First Century: Develop Your Child’s Talents: Catch Them Young 49

Routine of the Security Department from First Light to Last Light 50 51 Counseling for a Health Living 52 53

Focus Interview with Gold Star Parents 54 56 Facts you need to know about Nigeria 57

Implications of the Use of Illicit Drugs in Sports 58 59 Be an English Language Expert 60

Campus Life 61

Nutritious Nigerian Delicacies 62

Health Wise Health is Wealth 63

Laughter is the Best Medicine 64 Nigerian proverbs in pidgin English 64

2021 Convocation Ceremony Memorable Moments 65 69

Best of Baze University Panorama: Editor’s Gallery 70

Construction of New student’s Hostel 71 72 Alumni 73

Poetry and Silent Corner 74

CONTRIBUTIONS

FROM:

The Pro-chancellor

The Vice Chancellor

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Admin) Deputy Vice Chancellor (ITR&I)

Registrar University Librarian Chief Medical Director BUH

Dean, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Dean, Faculty of Computing & Sciences Dean, Faculty of Engineering

Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Dean, Faculty of Law Dean, Faculty of Management & Social Sciences Director, Academic Planning, Strategy & Special Duties Director, CFIS Director, Human Resource Chief Security Officer Students Support Unit Sports Unit Alumni

From the Editorial Desk

BAZE FOCUS Magazine is six years old and Baze University is Twelve Years Old! It is important to recognize the contributions of all the staff, students and Alumni that add value to our brand. As the world overcomes the post COVID 19 pandemic challenges; it is important to remind ourselves of how this university navigated the lockdown period without truncating academic activities. The IT digital platform allowed a seamless migration to remote learning and the students never lost mileage in their studies. The robust platform allows the use of advance IT tools to make online learning easy and impactful.

Baze Focus Magazine provides a platform to share major events, achievements and new innovation with members of the public. This is the 2022 Edition and it coincides with the 9th Convocation Ceremonies. Today is an auspicious moment as the University celebrates the graduation of Class 2022 and presents graduands to the public. We make bold to state that our graduands carry our mark of excellence in learning and in character and considering the rigorous tutelage they were exposed to, there is no doubt that they will excel in their future endeavours.

I congratulate the parents and sponsors of the graduands and applaud their commitment to investment in quality education. Today, economies are knowledge driven and quality University Education holds the key to a better life. Baze University is the destination of choice as the Baze Brand keeps its promise on excellence.

Let me invite our Readers all over the world to another interesting Edition of our Magazine as I present contributions from: the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences: Reaching New Heights; Faculty of Law the Flagship at Baze; Faculty of Engineering - Large-scale electrification planning for increasing renewable energy access in Nigeria A Geographic Information System (GIS) Model; Faculty of Environmental Sciences: Research Collaborations and Innovations; Faculty of Management & Social Sciences On the move; and the Centre for Foundations & Interdisciplinary StudiesEntrepreneurship and Leadership Development

The star article in this edition is from the Faculty of Computing & Applied Sciences showing Final Year Students’ Field Trip in the Department of Biological Sciences. We also bring to you the Art of Reading and the Library; Private Sector Collaborations and the new Students’ Hostel Project ; Memorable Moments of 2021 Convocation Ceremony and Interviews with Valedictorians and Baze University Gold Star Parents.

In this Edition,3 we also present to you more articles: Promotion is not given but earned; NITDA Scholar at Baze; Sadiya Farouk Wins ‘DROPS’ Scholarship; Pro-Chancellor’s Scholarship Awardees; Update from Academic Planning; the Baze University HospitalNow Open For Business; etc. There are other regular features on Alumni,

Founder's Note

Gratefully, we are now steadily in our 12th year of operation, and firmly consolidating our gains. Baba-Ahmed University, Kano was licensed by the Federal Government in June this year under the same ownership as Baze University, as we bask in the cheers of establishing the biggest private hospital by built area in Africa.

We grow stronger with the challenges of our times, albeit never anticipated or planned. Exchange rate has brought us to an era where a Smartboard costs a session's Tuition Fee while we cannot transfer same to Parents. Instead, we will go the extra mile to bear and manage within the scope of our capacity. We shall not rest or waver in our commitment to quality and standards.

Baze University recently secured necessary approvals from the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence PhD. Programmes in several disciplines starting from this academic year. The University Hospital which was commissioned last year has fully commenced activities with the employment of over one hundred highly qualified and competent professionals in major fields of medicine and nursing care. I am happy to note that the hospital has started to enjoy public recognition and patronage.

As part of efforts to expand access to university education and admit more

students from far away destinations, the university has also commenced the construction of a 700 bed-space capacity students’ hostel to be fitted with bespoke facilities for comfort and recreation. This hopefully will be commissioned by January 2023.

And in line with the expansion of academic programmes, arrangements are also in top gear to build more classrooms and staff offices to accommodate the increased numbers of students and staff. We are also exploring partnerships in the generation and deployment of solar energy in the entire university.

We are unrelenting in our vision and are confident that with providence on our side and support from stakeholders, there will be many memorable moments of celebrations ahead.

Sen. YD Baba-Ahmed, PhD, FSAN. Founder, Pro-Chancellor Baze University, Abuja

Sen. Y.D. Baba-Ahmed, PhD, FSAN. Founder, Pro Chancellor

HAPPY HOMECOMING TO OUR ALUMNI

On behalf of the entire Baze University Community, I warmly welcome newly enrolled students into the university and felicitate with returning students who have passed their examinations, and progressed to the next level of their studies.

It is also with immeasurable delight, that I welcome successful graduands back to their alma mater to receive their Degrees and Higher Degrees at the 9th Convocation ceremony of the University. No doubt Baze University prepared you to excel in your future career goals and today is a celebration of your efforts. As an alumnus, this is a homecoming and Management is happy that you have found time to join us in today’s celebration. I congratulate you and applaud your parents and sponsors for their huge investment in your education. As you go into the world of work, I enjoin you to keep our flag flying high.

We are happy to report that all activities of the university had progressed seamlessly. Baze University has had no history of labour shutdowns as was witnessed during the recently suspended eight months strike action of the Academic Staff Union of public universities. At Baze, we collectively ensure that schooling is made easier with a synchronous system of virtual and in-person learning that expose students to the very best pedagogical methods in global best practices.

In addition to this, Management has put in place efficient policies that guide the delivery of all academic activities and security measures that safeguard lives and properties. The University also provides robust pastoral care to support learning. In this regard, new students hostels with over 700 room capacity is at advanced stage while the University Hospital has commenced activities in earnest.

Over the years, the institution has established itself as a citadel of learning and an ivory tower for youths that desire knowledge in various fields of study including Medical Sciences, Computing and Applied Sciences, Law, Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Management and Social Sciences. The University continues to affirm the sanctity and standard of its certificates by ensuring that all matured programmes are duly accredited by the relevant academic and professional regulatory bodies.

Recently, the National Universities Commission approved the mounting of PhD in sixteen programmes including Accounting, International Relations & Diplomacy, Business Management, Sociology & Anthropology, Computer Science, Mass Communication, Economics, Biology, Law, Clinical Psychology, Engineering - Mechanical, Civil, Petroleum & Gas, Electrical Electronics; Quantity Surveying and Microbiology. Necessary arrangements are being put in place to ensure that these programmes commence in 2023.

Baze University invests heavily on staff development and maintains robust collaboration with different stakeholders to provide a multidimensional learning for the students. The increasing number of our alumni with national and international recognitions and awards is a testament to our academic prowess and efficiency. We remain resolute in our efforts to maintain excellent academic environment that enables development of skills and grooms talents in all our students.

The increasing number of our Alumni with national and international recognitions and awards is a testament to our academic prowess and efficiency.

Prof. Tahir Mamman, OON, SAN Vice Chancellor

PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

Prof. Tahir MAMMAN, OON, SAN (VICE – CHANCELLOR)

Dr. Mani Ibrahim Ahmad REGISTRAR

Umar DALHATU BURSAR

Dr. James DANIEL LIBRARIAN

David OGBONNA Esq. DVC ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Rislan KANYA DVC ITR&I

HEADSHIP OF FACULTIES & DEPARTMENTS

S/N FACULTIES PROGRAMMES

1. BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES

Dean: Prof. Ferdinand Om’iniabohs

B.Med. Sci ANATOMY

B.Med. Sci PHYSIOLOGY

B.MLS MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

B.Sc PUBLIC HEALTH

B.RAD RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION SCIENCE

B.Sc BIOLOGY

PGD Biology

PhD Biology

B.Sc BIOCHEMISTRY

2. COMPUTING AND APPLIED SCIENCES

Ag. Dean: Prof. Peter Ogedebe

B.Sc BIOTECHNOLOGY

B.Sc MICROBIOLOGY

M.Sc ANIMAL & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

B.Sc COMPUTER SCIENCE (INFO. TECH)

B.Sc COMPUTER SCIENCE (SOFTWARE ENG.)

B.Sc COMPUTER SCIENCE (INF. SYS. MGT) PGD COMPUTER SCIENCE PhD COMPUTER SCIENCE

DEPARTMENTS

ANATOMY

PHYSIOLOGY

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Dr. Swesme Enyioma Alozie (Ag)

Dr. Adebayo Gege Grace

Dr. Yashim Nuhu Andrew (Ag)

PUBLIC HEALTH Dr. Panmial Damulak (Ag)

RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION SCIENCE

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

BIOCHEMISTRY

Dr. Sunday Okpaleke (Ag)

Associate Prof. Helen Negbenebor

Dr Dele Moses Adams (Ag)

BIOTECHNOLOGY Mrs Olushola Tinuoye (Ag)

MICROBIOLOGY

Dr. Issac Paul Ojodale (Ag)

Dr. Jibrin Noah Akoji

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Dr Uppin Chandrasekhar

SCIENCES

IN PURSUIT OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Staff Currently on International Training

RANK

DEPARTMENT

1. Dr. David Etor

Lecturer

Computer & Electrical Electronics Engineering

Lecturer Human Physiology April 2022 31st March 2023 International Cardiology Fellowship at the Meditrina Heart Institute, Kollam, India. 3. Dr. Chollette Olisah

Audu Senior

Dr. Matouke Makouke Moise Lecturer I Biological Sciences

PromotionisnotgivenbutEarned AhmadLawiMAHMOUD*

Be amiable get along with colleagues and subordinates 4. Take criticism wisely and in good faith it will help you become better 5. Drop your problems at home everyone has them! 6. Take pride in your job that is what earns you a living. 7. Don't envy those ahead of you you don’t know their baggage 8. Never expect reward for the service you are paid for. 9. Mentor others and train your subordinates a good leader develops capacities in others. 10. Take responsibility for all your actions never pass the buck 11. Give official work the utmost priority

Integrity must be the watch word at all times.

Arc. Hauwa O. Yusuf Lecturer II Architecture Jan 2022 Jan 2025 PhD Innovation and Infrastructure Development, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia

2021 March 2023

PTDF Scholar in Informatics & Robotics, University of Montpellier, France

COLLABORATION WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR

BAZE UNIVERSITY & DOMINEUM AI BLOCKCHAIN LAB*

In 2021, the Management of Baze University entered into partnership with Domineum Blockchain Solutions; a distributed ledger technology company that assists public and private sector companies to integrate Blockchain into their operations. Dominuem is an international company with a Head Office in London; its Technology Resource Center is in Tallinn, Estonia while the Research & Development (R&D) Unit is located in San Francisco, USA and at Baze University Abuja. The Domineum partnership has been active for one year and Baze Focus Magazine had a chat with a senior staff on site.

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.

My name is Amuwa Ajigboye, Business Support Executive for Domineum Blockchain Solutions.

2. What is your Job Description?

My responsibility at Domineum is to interface with new/existing clients and other strategic partners to oversee office administration and provide field support and collaboration in active partnerships.

3. How long have you worked with Baze University? Our partnership with Baze University officially commenced in November 2021 and I have been on this campus since then.

4. What motivated Domineum’s collaboration with Baze University? Domineum aims to upscale the use of Blockchain Technology Innovation through capacity building in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. To this end, our company is in partnership with this prestigious university to establish a novel, first of its kind Blockchain Artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratory to position both parties as pioneers in the development of blockchain and artificial intelligence in Africa.

5. What benefits has your company gained from partnering with Baze University? We gained mileage on intellectual property, additional exposure and use of high end facilities.

6. What challenges have you encountered in this partnership with Baze University? The major challenge was the initial unwillingness of students to sign up to use Blockchain and AI.

7. What were your expectations at the outset of this partnership? We went into this partnership to provide enabling environment for students to leverage enterprise level Blockchain and AI in order to build native technological solutions.

8. Have your expectations been met? Yes and to a large extent.

9. What is your opinion about the digital platform at Baze University? This University’s digital platform is top notch. I am highly impressed at how modern and organized the digital facilities are at Baze. From the online/onsite classes to the digital equipment generously distributed across the school, to the upscale laboratories; Baze University has indeed set a standard for modern day learning in Nigeria.

10. Please rate the facilities at Baze University in comparison to other institutions. Baze University is undoubtedly among the top tier institutions in Nigeria, especially in these areas: highly experienced international staff, up-to-date teaching equipment and students’ access to highend educational facilities.

11. Would you recommend Baze University to other ICT organizations? Yes, most definitely.

12. Advise Management on ways to improve service delivery in the university. I would only say “keep up the good work”.

BAZE UNIVERSITY HIGH-FLIERS

NITDA SCHOLAR AT BAZE UNIVERSITY

On the 16th of September 2022, the National Information, Technology and Development Agency (NITDA), a Parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy offered a full scholarship to an indigent Nigerian youth, named Isah Barde Auwal (in white T-shirt). Isah who invented a robot that duplicates human body movements became popular when he posted a video of this invention on the internet and was scouted by NITDA. The scholarship covers full tuition, accommodation and living expenses for an undergraduate programme in Computer Engineering at Baze University. Isah is a teenager from Kano and has been an inspiration with his inventions. He started designing Tractors and Excavators since childhood before his new passion in robotics.

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PIC.1: From Right to Left Alhaji Auwal Bako, Father of the Scholar, Dr. Najjash Gafai, HoD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brother of Scholar, Isah Barde Auwal (NITDA Scholar at the centre), Ahmed Tijjani Ishaq, Head of Innovation & Prototyping Unit, NITDA, Dr. Rislan Kanya, DVC IT, Umar Dalhatu, Bursar and Andrew Bulah a lecturer in CFIS.

PIC.2 &3: Isah Barde Auwal proudly displays a moving robot which he built with cardboard.

SADIYA FAROUK WINS ‘DROPS’ SCHOLARSHIP Society of Petroleum Engineers – DROPS Award

2nd August 2022

Sadiya Farouk, a 400 Level Student of Baze University Abuja, Department of Petroleum & Gas Engineering, recently won the 2022 Society of Petroleum Engineers, (NSPE) Nigeria Council DROPS Award. Dr. Olumide Philips Scholarship (DROPS) was instituted in 2011 by Dr. Osborne Olumide Phillips, a Petroleum Engineer and member of SPE Nigeria Council Board of Trustees. This Scholarship is for an annual sum of One Million Naira only split into equal proportions among the five best students from the five SPE sections in Nigeria. Congratulations to SADIYA FAROUK & the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering!

In November 2019, Sen. Y.D Baba Ahmed, PhD, FSAN, Founder & Pro Chancellor (PC) of Baze University, Abuja instituted a full tuition Scholarship to any five deserving junior staff to incentivize deserving staff by advancing their capacities. The fist batch of Scholars who commenced their programme in 2020 are moving on successfully in their studies. A second batch of two staff were recently awarded the PC’s Scholarship and have commenced their programmes. BAZE FOCUS MAGAZINE interviewed the new Awardees!

PRO-CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARSHIP : Baze PC Scholars

BELLO AHMAD - joined the services of Baze University in May 2014 as a PLUMBER. He is now in Level 100, studying Public Administration as a Baze PC Scholar with fully funded scholarship.

DAWUS DATOK - joined the services of Baze University in August 2015 as a CARPENTER. He is now in Level 100, studying Civil Engineering as a Baze PC Scholar with fully funded scholarship.

UPDATE FROM ACADEMIC PLANNING - New Approvals in the Kitty.

The Directorate of Academic Planning (DAP) given its unique functions remains a coordination hub of all academic activities. This is why the Directorate makes conscious efforts to ensure due diligence in the take-off of new programmes and compliance with the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS).

In April 2022 and line with the established practice, NUC carried out the Re-accreditation of twelve (12) matured programmes in the University, these are Accounting, Business Management, Public Administration, Human Physiology, Computer science, Quantity Surveying, Biology, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Economics, International Relations & Diplomacy, Law, etc. They were all awarded Full Accreditation Status. As of October 2022, Baze University has good academic standing with NUC on all its programmes, twenty eight (28) programmes have Full Accreditation Status, while others are yet to mature for accreditation.

Furthermore, as a result of recent NUC Resource Verification Exercise, the University now has the approval to offer the following new Undergraduate and Post-graduate programmes:

B.Sc. Cyber Security

B.Sc. Political Science.

B. Eng Chemical Engineering

B. Eng Mechatronics Engineering

PGD Public Administration.

PGD Chemistry.

M. Eng. Computer Engineering

M. Eng. Gas Engineering Management

M. Eng. Petroleum Engineering & Environmental Management.

PGD & Ph.D. Accounting.

PGD & Ph.D. International Relations & Diplomacy.

PGD & Ph.D. Business Management

PGD & Ph.D. Sociology & Anthropology.

PGD & Ph.D. Computer Science

PGD & Ph.D. Mass Communication.

PGD & Ph.D. Economics.

PGD & Ph.D. Biology

PGD, MSc Developmental Psychology

PGD, MSc & Ph.D. Clinical Psychology

PGD, MSc & Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

PGD, MSc & Ph.D. Civil Engineering

PGD, MSc & Ph.D. Petroleum & Gas Engineering

PGD, MSc & Ph.D. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

PhD. Law.

MSc. & Ph.D Quantity Surveying

PGD, MSc and Ph.D Microbiology

The under-listed Professional Regulatory Bodies visited some programmes in the university during the year:

the Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria (RRBN) for a Pre Accreditation and Advisory Visit in the Department of Radiography and Radiation Science in the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences.

the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) for the accreditation of the Medical Laboratory Science Programme, which has now been granted Full Accreditation.

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Accounting, MSc 15 months N2, 530, 000 Economics, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 International Relations and Diplomacy, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 Mass Communication, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 Management, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 MBA 24 months N3, 080, 000 Public Administration, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 Sociology, MSc 15 months N2, 530, 000 Security, Leadership and Society, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 Intelligence and Global Security, MSc 15 months N2, 300, 000 2.

THE FACULTY OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES: REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

A. OM’INIABOHS*

The Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences has three (3) Departments: Medical Laboratory Sciences, Public Health and Radiography and Radiation Sciences. The following programmes were approved in 2020 by the National Universities Commission (NUC):

B. Med Lab Sci (Hons) in Medical Laboratory Science;

B. Pub. Health (Hons) in Public Health

B. Science (Hons) Radiography in Radiography

A prospective student in B. Med Lab (Hons) Sci and B. Sci (Hons) Radiography spends five (5) years of tuition in either programme while the Public Health programme requires four (4) year tuition to graduation. All three programmes are due for NUC Re Accreditation by the end of 2022.

The Medical Lab and Radiography programmes being professional programmes with Regulatory Councils, had Pre Accreditation (Advisory) visits in July and August 2022 respectively.

The Departments of Anatomy and Physiology received full NUC Accreditation in 2021 and have produced three (3) sets of graduates including one (1) first class graduate Ms. Aisha Ibrahim ADULMALIK who is currently serving in Kano State.

Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Community Outreach Principal, some staff and students of Glisten International Academy (GIA), Jahi.

Community Outreach Prize Giving at GIA done by Fatima Yerima, a final student of the Department of Anatomy, and former student of GIA.

*ProfFerdinandA.Om’IniabohsisaProfessorofAnatomy&CellBiologyandDean,FacultyofBasicMedicalSciences.

Ferdinand

Ms Aisha Ibrahim Abdumalik with Prof. Ferdinand Om’Iniabohs, Dean of Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences and HoD of Anatomy (Dr. Swesme Enyioma Alozie)

Students from Department of Public Health on Community Outreach to Jiwa Primary Health Care in May, 2022.

*ProfFerdinandA.Om’IniabohsisaProfessorofAnatomy&CellBiologyandDean,FacultyofBasicMedicalSciences.

Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Seminar Series - February & June 2022.

Baze Reproductive Health Week Radio Talk Shows Dr Rais Ibraheem (guest speaker) Dr. Swesme Enyioma Alozie (HoD

Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences Community Outreach Students of Government Secondary School, Garki listen in rapt attention.

*ProfFerdinandA.Om’IniabohsisaProfessorofAnatomy&CellBiologyandDean,FacultyofBasicMedicalSciences.

Exercise Physiology Laboratory - Treadmill, Bicycle Ergometer and Kymograph for muscle excitation

Large-scale Electrification Planning for Increasing Renewable Energy Access in Nigeria

– A Geographic Information System (GIS) model. Munir Aminu Husein*

Introduction

SDG goal number 7 recognized affordable and clean energy as a key driver for reducing poverty and improving societal well-being. Despite this, 733 million people are still living without electricity. Lack of electricity access is particularly worst in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the access rate is 48%, meaning 568 million people still lack access to electricity in 2020. Even within Sub Saharan Africa, the access rate is uneven with unequal progress between countries. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with the largest economy, remains the world’s largest electricity deficit country, with 92 million people lacking access in 2020. In Nigeria, the electricity access progress is slow and barely outpacing population growth. This makes the country important in the pursuit of universal access by 2030. The country has struggled to provide this vital service for decades, despite various policy interventions.

The Renewable Energy Research Group of the Faculty of Engineering is conducting cuttingedge research to tackle this important problem. We collaborate with the Joint Research Center of the European Union in researching the best way to provide electricity to the people who lack it, using modern and renewable energy. The research problem is centered on finding the best approach to provide electricity access to each community among the three primary approaches: the grid extension, mini-grid, or stand-alone systems, such as solar home systems. The optimal mix of these options is difficult to determine, and a lack of consistent plans and policies means thousands of communities are without this essential service in the twenty first century. The model developed in this work will help planners and policymakers in tackling this important problem.

Number of people without access to electricity, in selected regions, 2010, 2018, and 2020 (millions of people). Source: The Energy Progress Report 2022 (The World Bank Publication).

The research goal is to develop and use geographic information system (GIS) models for large-scale electrification. The model can be applied to electrification planning at the national, subnational, or continental levels. The model considers factors such as population density, existing and planned transmission networks and power plants, economic activities, tariffs for grid based electricity, technology costs for mini grid and off grid systems, and fuel costs, among others. In 2020, about 92 million people in Nigeria had no access to electricity; this number is not only the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa but it is the highest in the world.

The research goal is to develop and use geographic information system (GIS) models for large-scale electrification. The model can be applied for electrification planning at national, sub national, or continental level. The model considers factors such as population density, existing and planned transmission networks and power plants, economic activities, tariffs for grid-based electricity, technology costs for mini-grid and off-grid systems, and fuel costs, among others.

Nigeria has the most population without electricity access not only in SubSaharan Africa but globally, totaling about 92 million people in 2020.

Source: The World Bank 2022. The primary ways to provide electricity access are through grid extension, mini-grids, and stand-alone systems.

Clusters of communities in Nigeria without electricity in 2020.

Discussion and policy implication of the work

The aim of our model is to develop a large-scale electrification planning at the sub-national, national, and continental levels. The model is first applied to Nigeria as a case study. The optimal electrification options (grid extension, mini grid, and stand alone systems) will be calculated for 22,696 population clusters (un electrified communities) in Nigeria. The mini grid considered includes solar PV/battery, Wind/battery, and solar PV/Wind/battery. The stand alone systems include solar PV/battery or diesel generator. The preliminary results from the model indicate that the unelectrified communities in Nigeria can be electrified by grid extension, mini-grid, and stand-alone solar home systems with 66%, 29%, and 5%, respectively.

The preliminary results from the model indicate that the unelectrified population in Nigeria can be electrified by grid extension, mini-grid, and stand-alone solar home systems with 66%, 29%, and 5%, respectively.

In addition, the model will be used to investigate the impacts and effectiveness of three incentive policies, in addition to the base case scenario (without any incentive):

1. The base case system This case is without any incentive policy. While this case is not the actual current scenario, since many incentive policies exist, it nonetheless provides a basis for evaluating other incentive policies.

2. Capital subsidy In this study, a capital subsidy provided by the Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency is assumed. This subsidy is in form of a rebate of 350 USD per connection (household).

3. Low interest loans This scenario is simulated with a discount rate of 9%, which is approximately the same interest rate charged by most renewable energy financing facilities in Nigeria, such as the Bank of industry solar loan and SUNREF facility.

4. Financing productive use equipment In this incentive, the assumption is made that there is a loan or grant given to acquire productive use equipment in each community. The implication is the increase in daytime electricity demand as a result of operating productive use equipment.

The Baze University Faculty of Engineering is positioning itself at the center of research and collaboration on renewable energy and its role in the Nigeria Energy Transition Plans.

Conclusion

This research project, which is being carried out at the Faculty of Engineering, Baze University, is sponsored by the European Union Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy. The study applies a large scale electrification model to find the optimal electrification options: Grid extension, mini grid, and stand alone system. The project duration is from 2020 to 2023. The preliminary results from the model indicate that the un electrified communities in Nigeria can be electrified by grid extension, mini grid, and stand alone solar home systems with 66%, 29%, and 5%, respectively. The results of the findings will be published in academic journals and the model will be provided as an open source code. The Baze University Faculty of Engineering is positioning itself at the Center of Research and Collaboration on Renewable Energy for a role in the Nigeria Energy Transition Plans.

*Dr.MunirAminuHuseinisthePrincipalInvestigator andHeadRenewableEnergyResearchGroup, FacultyofEngineering,BazeUniversity,Abuja.

Baze University Panorama is a Weekly Online Pictorial Magazine that brings major activities of the University to members of the community. View, share or download any Back Edition, click https://issuu.com/bazeuniversity.

Baze University Panorama is a Weekly Online Pictorial Magazine that brings major activities of the University to members of the community. View, share or download any Back Edition, click https://issuu.com/bazeuniversity.

FINAL

YEAR STUDENTS’ FIELD

TRIP IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (21st to 25th March, 2022) *Zainab Oiza ADEIZA

Introduction

The end of the four-year rigorous training for the degree in the Biological Sciences is concluded with a final year students’ field trip where the students get to spend a week in nature exploring some of Nigeria’s amazing biodiversity without the comforts of a proper classroom, accommodation, basic amenities or even food while dealing with inclement weather conditions for the most part. This year we had the pleasure of taking both our undergraduate and postgraduate students on this exhilarating adventure. Since the pandemic, our field trips have been restricted to Abuja and its environs which are blessed with an abundance of biodiversity just like any other part of the country. Join us as we take you on an exciting tour of the capital city, Abuja like you have never seen it before.

JABI LAKE

Our first stop was Jabi Lake, situated at the heart of the capital city. It is a manmade lake surrounded by trees, grasses and shrubs and serves as a water catchment for the city and a habitat for wildlife, especially birds, fishes, squirrels and small monkeys. It also performs other less apparent but very important functions like replenishing groundwater, and flood and pollution control while aiding in biogeochemical cycles and nutrient sequestration. It is a fantastic recreation site for residents. We spent the whole day exploring the habitat, bird watching and the dynamic relationships between the plants and animals. At the end of our expedition, we took both water and plant samples for lab analysis and storage in our herbarium respectively.

On the 22nd of March, 2022 we spent the morning at the National Parks Service Headquarters where we went through the whole departments which are representations of all our National Parks from the Animal orphanage where ill animals or those confiscated from poachers or donated are kept and rehabilitated before reintroduction back into any of our National Parks than to the Mini Park which houses several floral specimens, some herbivores, monkeys as well as porcupines, a dwarf crocodile and several species of bird, other reptiles and countless insect and invertebrate species just to mention a few. We also visited the arboretum where unique specimens from all over the country are preserved as well as the museum. All through the Park we were birdwatching and recording the species. At the end of our expedition here we took some plants and invertebrate specimens for our herbarium and labs.

The next stop we went to the National Children’s Park and Zoo where we started by birdwatching and then we explored the animals that were kept in cages. We took time to explore the whole park and took some water samples. Zoos serve to help preserve live specimens of animals that are otherwise too far away to see as well as for research and educational purposes in a world where biodiversity is rapidly declining. Animals confiscated from poachers or traffickers are also kept here and eventually returned into the wild or kept if habituated. We got to see a lion cub that was confiscated from wildlife traffickers by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA)

On the 23rd of March, 2022 we visited Sewage Treatment Plant, Wupa under the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB). This plant is in charge of breaking down municipal liquid waste and treating it before the effluents are released into River Wupa so that it can be reabsorbed in the water system. Later that day, we paid a visit to NIPRD where we spent time in the botanical garden

On the 24th March 2022, we visited the Leventis Agricultural Training School, Yaba, Abaji where we learnt hands on entrepreneurial skills in different fields like crop farming, fisheries, apiculture, snail and poultry farming and meal formulations. The training school is a subsidiary of Leventis Foundation Nigeria (LFN) and has been training youths and farmers (both men and women) in Nigeria and Ghana since 1988 and currently runs six schools in 6 different states in Nigeria and four centres in Ghana. This is achieved through the yearly recruitment of youths to participate in training on modern and sustainable agriculture in crop production and agroforestry, livestock production, enterprise development and farm mechanization. The schools have capacities to admit 100 to 150 trainees (male and female except Panda School which currently admits only male trainees) per year. The school has trained more than 27,000 youths under the one year regular training since 1988. All trainees receive board and lodging, school and work uniforms free of charge including monthly stipends.

On our last day (25th March 2022), we visited the national seeds council which aims to build a market driven seed industry for the production and distribution of high quality and improved planting materials that are available, accessible and affordable to all farmers. As well as transform the Nigerian Seed System into a leading seed industry in Sub Saharan Africa worthy of generating foreign exchange, key employer of labour and contributing positively to the country’s economy. The NASC is charged with the overall development and regulation of the national seed industry.

At the end of the week long field trip, our students expressed appreciation for the knowledge and experience gained, through some practical and hands on experiences otherwise impossible to achieve. It has also given them ideas for their research topics and equipped them with entrepreneurial skills they could implement after their degree. However, the complained of exhaustion to which I responded; No Pain, No Gain!

L R Ms. Zainab Oiza Adeiza (Zoologist, Conservation Biologist & Fieldtrip Coordinator), Dr. Helen Negbenebor (HoD, Zoologist & Entomologist) and Taoheed K. Muftaudeen (Botanist & Plant Taxonomist).

Hussein, Ididi & Raham are students putting some plant specimens in the plant press

A cross section of staff of the National Park Services, and Baze University staff and students during the Visit.

Faculty of Environmental Sciences: Research Collaborations and Innovations

Bala MUHAMMAD*

Today the academic environment is constrained by uncertainty, increased competition, and rapidly evolving technology. Smart and sustainable education is key to this era, just as health and comfort is key to life. The world is facing energy crises, environmental sustainability and resource depletion, so the Higher Educational Institutions that will remain relevant in this century must adopt best practices and rational ways of managing and conserving the environment to deliver the future. To this end, researchers and practitioners in different fields use high tech applications including BIM, 3D Geoinformatics to carry out varieties of spatial analysis.

The Faculty of Environmental Sciences (FES) at Baze University is working towards industrial collaboration and benchmarking to improve and support smart education, optimum performance and excellence. The Faculty is ever determined to make BAZE University a living Lab where companies and researchers can be better connected, to collaborate, create and commercialize innovative urban solutions in live mix environment. This renewed focus offers more flexibility and huge difference in resetting our experiences to keep pace with the dynamics of times, and indeed the ever changing expectations and evolving environmental concerns.

There are six Departments in the Faculty: Architecture, Building, Estate Management, Quantity Surveying, Surveying & Geo informatics and Urban & Regional Planning. The faculty currently has extensive human resources including seasoned Professors and Lecturers with vast academic and technical experience to seamlessly deliver all the course content at the undergraduate land postgraduate level.

All academic staff in the faculty are registered with respective national and international statutory bodies such as Nigerian Institute of Architects [NIA], Council of Registered Builders [CORBON], Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors [NIESV], Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors [NIQS], Surveyors Council of Nigeria [SURCON], Town Planners Registration Council of Nigeria [TPRCN], Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria [COREN], Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology [MSET], etc.

The faculty has obtained full accreditation from the National Universities Commission [NUC] and relevant professional bodies including the Architect Registration Council of Nigeria [ARCON], Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria [ESVARBON] and the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria [QSRBN]. Below are outcomes of students projects and feedbacks in various programmes: Department of Architecture

Architectural Design:

Ahmad Abba Kabir (BU/19A/ENV/3632), a 400 level student of the Department of Architec ture, presented a magnificent design of the proposed Baze University ‘Senate Building’. The design is a unique integration of the principles of passive cooling for indoor air quality preva lent in institutional buildings in Abuja. 

Fantastic

Presentations:

Arsene Koumnomani Boumani (BU/19A/ENV/3517) a foreign student in the Department of Architecture was offered a ‘right at the spot’ employment after an interesting presentation to Internal and External Jurors. One External Juror was so impressed by the presentation that he offered Arsene a full time job in his private company; Nina Briggs & Associates. 

Intelligent Performance: Khadija Abubakar (BU/19C/ENV/3936) a student in the Department of Architecture received a special commendation from a place of deployment during the Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES). She received a wonderful gift at the end service from the Management of Urban Shelter Abuja in March 2022.

Department of Quantity Surveying-

Sustainability:

A 500 level student of this Department conducted a study on the assessment of sustainable waste management in the Nigeria construction industry. The study revealed ‘recycling’ as one of the best sustainable waste management methods.

Information Technology:

Another 500 level student conducted a study on the factors affecting the adoption of ICT in material management on construction projects in Nigeria. The result of the study showed that “a one-step improvement in the quality of ICT tools” will result in a one-step gain in labour productivity.

Department of Building -

The Department of Building is a service point to all other Departments in the Faculty and teaches everything on ‘Materials’, ‘Construction’, ‘Structural Analysis’ and ‘Structural Design’. Recently the Department launched an ‘all information pamphlet’ targeting prospective Applicants from the international community including sister African countries and beyond.

Staff & students of the Department of Quantity Surveying on Collaboration Visit to URBAN SHELTER

Faculty of Management & Social Sciences - On the move

Introduction

The Faculty of Management and Social Sciences (FMSS) is growing in size and the quality of its personnel and products have been impressive in the past few semesters. Aside the eight Undergraduate programmes of Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Management, Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy, Mass Communication, Psychology and Sociology and Anthropology; the Faculty has also increased its stable of new Post Graduate programmes all fully approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The Post graduate programmes currently running are M.Sc in Accounting, Management, International Relations and Diplomacy, Mass Communication; Security, Leadership and Society, Intelligence and Global Security and Public Administration; while others scheduled to commence in January 2023 include PGD in Accounting, International Relations Diplomacy, Business Management, Economics, Mass Communication and Public Administration and Ph.D programmes in Business Management, Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy, Mass Communication and Sociology and Anthropology. In addition, the Faculty now has approval to run a B.Sc Programme in Political Science. An undergraduate Programme in Public Administration has been running since 2011.

These past few months have been eventful for the Faculty with the recruitment of high caliber academic staff and the elevation of five others to the Professorial cadre. As a result of the mounting of the new Post graduate programmes and the increase in student population; the Faculty has had to recruit more experienced hands.

The Department of Psychology achieved full accreditation status, and is awaiting NUC’s approval to commence PGD, MSc. and Ph.D. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology, early next year. The Department graduated students with high class degrees and in the 2021 Convocation produced the best graduating student in the whole university. The tracer studies on the performance of graduates in their places of work have also been commendable. This Department also has a unique utility value to other departments in the university; and just recently, it added the teaching of courses in the Faculty of Medicine to its mandate.

The Department of International Relations and Diplomacy has been engaging students in activities outside the university including field trips and study tours to important organizations. The idea is to enhance student’s practical knowledge beyond the classroom. Some undergraduate students led by the Department’s Coordinator for Study Tours Ms. Mercy Kwabe attended the Diplomatic Career Mentorship Session for Students facilitated by Diplomats and Expatriates at the Norwegian Ambassador’s Residence in 2021. During the session, the work and life experiences of Diplomats were shared by Guest Speakers from the Norwegian Embassy, and students were allowed to ask questions. (see Fig 1). Some Postgraduate (PG) students led by Dr. Tanko Ahmed a senior staff in the Department also visited the Army Resource Centre in Abuja in March 2022 (see Figs 2&3). Other PG students also went on a courtesy visit to the Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in February 2022. The delegation was led by Dr. Abubakar Yusuf, one of the academic staff.

One of the high points of this period was the appointment of one of the staff of the Department, Dr. Gbara Awanen as a Honorary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari (see Fig 1). The Faculty and Department congratulate him on this appointment and are convinced that it is a recognition of competence, diligence, patriotism and service, and wish him a successful tenure.

Professor Osita Agbu of the Department, and Dean of Faculty, delivered a Lecture entitled ‘Nigeria’s Counter Terrorism Strategy: An Analysis’ to Participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course Fifteen (EIMC 15) at the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) on 6 July 2022. The Lecture was well received by the Institute.

Fig 1 Students of the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Norwegian Embassy, 2021

Fig. 2 & 3 Post graduate Students of IR&D at the Army Resource Centre in March 2022

Fig. 4 Dr. Awanem Agbaara Nador of Baze University receiving his Letter of Commission from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Geoffrey Onyeama

Fig. 5 Prof. Osita Agbu after the Lecture at NISS Abuja, 6 July 2022

*ProfOsitaAgbu isaProfessorofInternationalRelationsandDean,FacultyofManagement&SocialSciences.

CFIS - Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development

Emeka ENE*

The Centre for Foundation and Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS) is a composite Unit that services other academic faculties in pursuit of corporate goals of the university toward the delivery of approved curricula. The Centre also designs and anchors collaborative partnerships between the university and other institutions. This year has been eventful in view of several collaborations and training programmes by CFIS towards equipping the general public, staff and students with requisite knowledge and skills to survive in the changing and uncertain contemporary world.

One of these events is the Baze University’s partnership with the Swedish Embassy through Global Wissen Consults, to train students in Digital Entrepreneurship skills, in any business area of their choice. In this partnership, highly qualified facilitators train students for three months in various aspects of entrepreneurship. Participants are certified after a successful performance. More than two hundred students from various faculties of the University have benefitted from this programme. CFIS has also signed Memorandums of Understandings (MOU) with some consultants to implement diverse academic oriented programmes for the benefit of staff and students, while some are still on the drawing board, a few of the programmes have commenced implementation. One of such collaborations, is with the Society for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development to organize International Academic Conference on Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development, scheduled for June 2023. In order to ensure continuity in the culture of excellence, the Centre has been given approval to organize a Mandatory Capacity Development Programme for academic staff.

The Centre manages the University Entrepreneurship Club and Toast Masters Club which provide students with a resourceful platform to network, share and develop innovative ideas into viable opportunities and enterprises. To strengthen the Club, the Centre organizes an annual Entrepreneurship week, which features professional workshops and exhibitions of various creative and innovative entrepreneurial products.

*Prof.EmekaEneistheDirectoroftheCentreforFoundations&InterdisciplinaryStudies.

The Faculty of Law - the Flagship at Baze

Ali AHMAD*

The Faculty of Law at Baze University is undoubtedly among the best in the Nigerian Universities system in view of the quality of staff and the adoption of the Clinical Legal Education method of teaching and mentoring of students. This learning process exposes students to simulation lessons on real life cases and clinical interaction with real life clients in processes managed by experienced Law Clinic Teachers and Licensed Legal Practitioners. The Baze University Faculty of Law LLB programme has identified, and defined, the learning outcomes that support students with experiential learning in line with the goal to produce competent law graduates conscious of social justice and ethical values. To this end, the Faculty offers robust and diverse platforms on experiential learning some of these are chronicled below in the year under review:

1. Discussion on Cybercrime

in Nigeria

27th July, 2022 The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, chaired a Discussion Session with the 500Level Law Students on the “Challenges of the prosecution and investigation of Cybercrime in Nigeria”. The Chairman was received by the Prof. Ernest Ojukwu SAN, Dayo G Ashonibare (Course Teacher) and Dr. Nasir Baba Ahmed (Director, Cyber Security Baze University).

The Chairman stated that the Commission was established by Section 7 of the EFCC Act and that while crime and population grew astronomically in Nigeria, the security agencies and the infrastructure needed to eradicate crime remained stagnant. He cited the inability of Government to increase the number of police stations and police officers hired to fight crimes and criminals; in comparison to the astronomical rise in both population and crimes. He noted that the Commission recorded 865 and 2220 Cybercrime convictions for year 2020 and 2021 respectively stating outdated laws hinder investigations on Cybercrime in Nigeria.

2. Introductory Training on Arbitration at JICAM

8th & 9th April 2022 the Clinicians of the ADR Clinic attended an Introductory Training on Arbitration at Janada International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (also known as JICAM). JICAM is an institution for national and international commercial dispute resolution and it settles disputes ranging from corporate, domestic, international trade, investment, etc sources. The essence of this training was to expose the clinicians to the fundamental principles and concepts on Arbitration. The training was also aimed at inculcating in the Cli nicians vital skills needed to specialize in Arbitration as a career and enable them to net work with other lawyers and distinguished panelist.

3. Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic

30th March 2022 - The Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic of the Baze Law Clinic was launched and inaugurated. The event was successful and memorable with many members of staff in attendance. Mrs Stella Peters (Co-chair of the Law Clinic Committee), Mr Kenechukwu Agwu (Law Clinic Administrator), Dr Nuraen Dindi (HOD Public International Law represented the Dean, Faculty of Law), and Ms Jessica Imuekemhe (ADR Law Clinic Supervisor) gave remarks at the event. The General Manager of JICAM Centre who was the Guest Speaker was elated that to be a partner of the new Law clinic. Dr Dindi, the HOD Public & International Law, represented the Dean and gave an exposition on the importance of ADR in general and in Africa.

4. RPDN Virtual Exchange Programme

4th March 2022 The RPDN exchange programme which involved Baze University, Nile University, University of Abuja, Nasarawa State University and partners from the United States of America commenced on the 4th of March 2022. The exchange programme was aimed at understanding the pretrial justice system in both jurisdictions and discussing the role of law clinics in reducing the rates as well as equipping the students with the skills needed to achieve such. The programme was divided into 5 parts spreading across 5 weeks and it included: Reducing Pretrial Detention, New Developments in Criminal and Legal Aid in Nigeria and the U.S, Best Practices in Client Interview and Counselling, Ethics in Criminal Defense and Approaches to the Bail System. There were sessions from various legal practitioners in Nigeria and the USA as well the participation of some judges based in Washington D.C who were elated about the programme and shared personal experiences and thoughts on the subject matter. About 50 students from the Baze University Law Clinic participated in the programme and NULAI Nigeria donated a digital 360 degree camera to the Law Clinic.

Baze ADR Law Clinicians, the HOD, lecturers, Guest Speaker & Attendees, at the launch and inauguration of the Baze

5. Tutor with Love Project 2.0

TUTORwithLOVE (‘TwL’) is a two day programme initiated by students in 21C semester and led by Igrubia Pamela Collins (Representative of the IHL Clinic) and Favour Onoja, (Assistant Representative of the IHL Clinic). It is a platform for clinicians to visit the Internally Displaced Persons Camp, to teach children and disseminate the knowledge of IHL. TwL is also an advocacy to raise awareness to the educational needs of the children in the IDP Camps and their right to quality education regardless of their displacement.

As a Clinic, all Outreach Activities are in partnership with the New Kuchigoro IDP and TwL was launched there. However, in 22C Semester, the project had to include the Karon Majigi IDP Camp. Karon Majigi serves as home to persons who have been displaced due to armed conflicts in their homes and primary places of abode. On February 19th, 2022, the Representatives of the IHL Clinic took a site assessment to the Karon Majigi IDP Camp. It is a decrepit camp and apart from a humble structure donated by ‘The Coalition of Muslim Women in Nigeria’, there are no facilities for a school or for teachers because parents do not have resources for such ventures. Due to the intervention of the Baze IHL Clinic, Karon Majigi IDP Camp is now part of the TwL project, and clinicians advocate on their behalf with respect to educational needs of the children.

The Action Plan of the Clinic for TwL included: a.Tutoring the primary school pupils [Primary 1-5] b.Teaching the following subjects: English Language, Mathematics, Civic Education, Physical & Health Education (PHE), Social Studies, Home Economics and General Science. c.Provision of teaching material including: White Boards, Markers, Pens, Pencils, Erasers, Rulers, Notebooks, Football and Skipping Ropes for physical exercises, Mats to siting on the floors in place of chairs and Refreshments for the children during break time. d.Days of tutoring are weekends (Friday and Saturday) and Class Time is 9:00am-1:30pm. Many clinicians volunteer as Tutors and others provide financial support which has made the TUTORwithLOVE project a huge success in Semester 22A, B & C.

At the end of the TwL Project, the participating Tutors/Clinicians including: Igrubia Pamela Collins Maryam Gidado Malami, Winnie Eka Williams, Utibeabasi Israel Utit, Divine Brown, Sekinah Adeyemi, Xenelli Isangedighi and Divine Kefas had an Assessment Round Table Discussion. The participants concluded that TwL Outreach in Karon Majigi IDP Camp was successful as it achieved its objective of disseminating the knowledge of IHL to the children and raising public awareness on the plight of children’s education in the camp; however, there is more to be done so that Government and NGOs can take up the responsibility of managing this camp. After TUTORwithLOVE22A, the general recommendation was the need for a long-term plan for the Karon Majigi IDP Camp.

6. Inter University Debate

28th July 1st of August 2022 Baze University Law students participated in an inter university debate on the Use And Abuse Of Technology organized by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficked Persons (NAPTIP) in commemoration of the World Day against Human Trafficking, The Faculty of Law was represented by three students; Asiya Garba 500Level, Chibueze Onwuchelu 300Level and Precious Agala 200Level all of whom emerged overall winners in the competition.

*Prof.AliAHMADistheDeanoftheFacultyofLaw

THE ART OF READING AND THE LIBRARY

James DANIEL*

Introduction

Reading is a life long process that never ends. Many people read Books of all kinds daily in print or electronic to satisfy their purposes in life. People irrespective of their ages read: to gain information and knowledge; solve day to day problems; and achieve tasks, which cannot be accomplished without requisite information. The best time to commence reading is in childhood, while the best place to start is the home and the school. In any case, learning never ends so reading has no limit.

Historically, reading dates back to the invention of writing in the 4th millennium BC. In the ancient Egyptian Empire, writings were sacred and mystical and could only be touched by the Royal Princes and Princesses. Thus, the first Librarians were of Royal blood. Today, reading from the printed text (Guttenberg 1495 AD) to obtain information appears easy and popular, but in history, it had never been so. With a few exceptions, only a small percentage of the population in many countries were literate before the Industrial Revolution.

The Importance of Reading and the Library

From the point of view of the Library, reading is basic and essential for all human beings. Reading is the main building block for learning and education irrespective of the school and subject an individual chooses to study. In real life, reading is a necessity for daily living and meeting every existential need and purpose such as reading street signs, prescription drugs, and numerous other things in life. Reading is an important and necessary life skill every child must develop. Reading strengthens the brain, improves memory and concentration, and increases vocabulary and language skills. It is a major source of analytical skill and a source of self-solutions to mystical storylines. Reading builds self confidence and opens wide, the world of entertainment and fun. Reading is the best teacher for the child about the world beyond his domain. Incidentally, many educated people take reading for granted, they forget how difficult it was as a child, and consequently become nonchalant about the fate of those who can neither read nor write. It is a great privilege to be able to read and the ability to read should be an equal opportunity.

The Role of the Library in Reading

The Library is the repository of the cumulative knowledge of the world from the beginning of mankind to date. Libraries have therefore played a fundamental role in learning and education from time immemorial and even now, despite the development of Information and Communication Technology and the Internet. The uniqueness of the Library, though, is an excellent resource of human and material content. The Librarians are trained to select, organize, catalogue, classify and disseminate library collections according to subjects and permanent home addresses using a standard classification scheme. This classification of materials makes the work of the reader a lot easier and the librarian is always there to direct and guide his clientele.

The library provides space, tranquility, and security. Computers and electronic gadgets are provided in the Library and loaded with digital subscription software (e books) in various subjects offered by the University. The library is the most comfortable and conducive place any student and researcher can find to do his studies on the university campus. All that is required of you is to simply register with the library to secure full access to the unlimited resources and facilities the University has put together for you throughout your stay. I invite you to come and READ to widen your horizon and reduce the ocean of ignorance of your world. Learn to Live.

The Internet and the Library

Reading is a life-long enterprise which never ends. The importance of the library from ancient times has been to store various types of information, such as history, music, literature, military and documents. In the last 2,000 years, the world has experienced exponential changes and innovations; however, the library has maintained its original drive of providing readers with the information they require for living and ensuring that visitors get to know the truth. No matter the information the visitors are looking for, they get these with the assistance of well-equipped libraries and trained librarians. Reading a good book can give a person all the necessary boost of the mind, heart and soul. In fact, with a good book, man is never alone under any circumstance and the book remains a reliable partner that will never die despite the ‘almighty Internet. This is why the Librarian treats Books with velvet hands and encourages everyone to do the same.

Libraries build communities and networks of people and resources. It is a centre for learning at all levels, and plays an important economic role because it allows access to open resources. Through the Library, various clubs are formed, where community developments are initiated and executed for the benefit of all. Libraries allow cohorts of various ages and trades to germinate and spread into the entire community of like minds. Libraries provide information about the marketplace and point readers to opportunities for business, which they hitherto would have missed. The library remains a great place for training and up-scaling one’s skills by leveraging Information Technology (IT).

Conclusion

The Library is fundamental to reading and learning because it is the custodian of the resources for literacy and education and makes it accessible to anyone that needs access to information. It is the permanent home of free long life learning and accommodate every reader. The Library remains the best friend of everyone; it is available 24/7. Reading is a culture we all need to cultivate by reading a Book. Why not read a Book today?

*Dr.JamesO.DANIEL, FNLA,FCAIistheUniversityLibrarian

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Baze University Hospital is an ultramodern tertiary hospital in the heart of the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja. The concept and philosophy behind BUH is to provide advanced healthcare service, medical education and research that is functionally and esthetically urbane, with state of art equipment and technology and staffed with the finest providers; from Nigeria and beyond.

The vision of the hospital is “To be the trusted leader in quality healthcare”; and our thrusts are in four modern, scientific methods of healthcare value chain management: a) Customer relationship management and employee satisfaction. b) Reimbursement for services by Diagnoses Related Group (DRG) c) Payment of physicians using the Relative Value Unit (RVU) and d) Relentless clinical quality improvement and patient safety measures.

The Hospital when in full operation will provide relief from capital flight as a result of medical tourism and physician migration and will be a Solution Blueprint for the numerous bottlenecks bedeviling the present healthcare system in Nigeria. The spectrum of services currently offered at BUH includes:

Baseline clinical services - Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Internal medicine, Surgery

Laboratory services - Chemical pathology, Hematology and blood transfusion, Microbiology and molecular laboratory and Histopathology and forensics

Radiological services – MRI, CT scan, USS, Digital x ray, Mobile X rays, Mammography, Fluoroscopy (in OR), etc.

Mani Ibrahim Ah-

*Dr.ManiIbrahimAhmad,FNIM,FCAI,is theRegistraroftheUniversity.

STUDENTS’ PASTORAL CARE: IT IS ROBUST

Mani Ibrahim Ahmad*

*Dr.ManiIbrahimAhmad,FNIM,FCAI,is theRegistraroftheUniversity.

Mani Ibrahim Ahmad*

*Dr.ManiIbrahimAhmad,FNIM,FCAI,is theRegistraroftheUniversity.

BAZE FOCUS INTERVIEW WITH THE

BEST OF THE ACES

HARUNA ABBA DANLAMI - BU/17C/BS/2683 2020 VALEDICTORIAN

First Class Psychology - Best Graduating Student

1. Please introduce yourself.

My Name is Haruna Abba Danlami, I was born in 1992 in Zaria, Kaduna State. I attended All Saints’ Nursery & Primary School, Abuja; St. John’s College, Jos; Abbey College Malvern, Worcestershire, UK and Baze University, Abuja. My hobbies are Boxing, Playing the Piano, Chess and Literature.

2. What Department did you graduate from at Baze University?

I graduated from the Department of Psychology, Baze University Abuja.

3. What are your career aspirations?

I want to be an Experimental Psychologist, so that I can apply the principles and theories of Psychology to solve a wide range of problems and advance humanity.

4. Who/what was your biggest motivation to pursue your field of study?

My biggest motivation is my burning desire to understand and develop myself so as to be of great service to humanity.

5. If you had to choose another field, what would you have done instead?

Probably Food Science, globally, there is a huge amount of food wastage as well severe poverty. A Food Scientist is capable of processing these foods (which are largely wasted or become pollutants) to nutritious, tasty and long lasting meals that are affordable and accessible.

6. What course was your favorite while at Baze University?

Psychology of Testing and Test Construction.

7. Which lecturer motivated you the most?

Dr. Damian Osa Afiana

8. What impact do you hope to bring to the society with this Degree? I hope to influence a generation of people who are more self-aware and motivated to serve humanity.

9. Any further plans for your career, Masters, etc.?

Oh, definitely, I intend to go further than a Master’s Degree.

10. How is life after school?

Great, I learn every day and I apply myself to being a person of value, character and service.

11. Have you secured employment? What is your experience in the labour market? I employed myself; I organize Events, create social media content and also run a farm.

12. Is there anything you wished you had done differently while in school? I wish I had fully registered and participated in the Baze Entrepreneurship Club.

13. How do you cope in difficult situations?

I pray to God.

14. What advice would you give to other students at Baze University, who are hoping to enter the labour market soon?

It is obvious that there are no more Jobs in Nigeria; over 30 million youths are unemployed. So, learn new skills before you leave the university, embark on self development. In today’s Nigeria, your VALUE is your PRICE. Utilize your NYSC SAED Programme in Camp and Post Camp, they offer valuable skills for almost free.

BAZE FOCUS INTERVIEW WITH THE BEST OF THE ACES

SHOLANKE OLUWATOBI BU/17A/ENG/2528

2021 VALEDICTORIAN First Class Computer Engineering - Best Graduating Student

1. Please introduce yourself.

My name is Sholanke Oluwatobi, born in Kaduna on 10-11-1992 but originally from Ogun state. I attended Remo Secondary School, Class of 2010 and started my Degree program at the Federal University of Technology, Minna in 2014 but transferred to Baze University in 2017. I learnt about software development, and then after that I started working as a software developer for local and foreign companies. My hobbies are cycling and watching Netflix.

2. What Department did you graduate from at Baze University? Computer Engineering

3. What are your career aspirations?

Since I finished my studies at Baze University, and wanted to become an IT Expert in the area of artificial intelligence, software and cloud solutions architecture. In this position, I hope to increase my technical knowledge while providing solutions and improvements to common industry problems. In the long run, I hope to contribute significantly to industry development and optimization to create something that would genuinely improve the lives of thousands.

4. Who/what was your biggest motivation to pursue your field of study? The idea of putting a piece of code into a lifeless piece of metal that can in turn help people to solve complex problems, motivated me to study computer engineering.

5. If you had to choose another field, what would you have done instead? Astrology or Astrophysics

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. What course was your favourite while at Baze University? Engineering Mathematics

7. Which lecturer motivated you the most?

Dr. David Etor and Dr. Najashi Baita

8. What impact do you hope to bring to society with this Degree? See no 3 above

9. Any further plans for your career, Masters Etc.?

Yes, I am already enrolled for MSc. Advance Software Engineering at the University of Leicester, UK and it will commence September 2022.

10. How is life after school? Life has been good, all thanks to God.

11. Have you secured employment? What is your experience in the labour market?

Yes, I am currently working as a senior software engineer at Happeo Oy, Finland.

12. Is there anything you wished you had done differently while in school?

None

13. How do you cope in difficult situations?

In difficult situations I accept the reality of things and make myself ready to face it. I remain calm, relax and think of solutions.

14. What advice would you give to other students at Baze University, who are hoping to face life soon? While it is expedient to get good grades at school, it is also important to add value to yourself. I advise that you learn a new skill or improve the status of the current one so that the product of your skill becomes an important commodity to others. The digital age we find ourselves in has made everything easy to the extent that you can learn a lot of new things from your bedroom through your phone or laptop. Just find yourself a skill and be good at it, remember anything worth doing, is worth doing well.

PARENTING SKILLS FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURYDevelop

Introduction

Talent is a demonstrable natural ability to excel at a particular activity without instruction or being taught. A talent is a unique, natural, creative, athletic or artistic ability of a person. Talent is not taught, it is inherent but it can be improved upon so as to get the best from the talented person. Everyone has a hidden talent and everyone is gifted in something but most times innate abilities are often overlooked especially at young age – the period when talents are better identified and nurtured. Discover your child's talents. Whatever talents they have, assist them to put it to use, if you don’t it diminishes. Whatever you don’t use; you lose. Whatever you don’t use you forfeit.

Quotes

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius

Henri Frederic Amiel Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

There are many examples of talents including: oratory, mathematical, painting, acting, eye hand coordination, singing, charisma, listening, innovation, etc. Many parents spend a great deal of resources developing the child’s intellectual ability while activities (extra curricula and sports) that expose innate talents are kept behind the burner.

Discover Your Child’s Talent

1. Identify the activities that the child does with ease: abilities in athletics, creative skills, artistic work, drama, networking etc. Examine activities the child loves doing with little prompting to determine a pattern of their talents.

2. Explore and experiment on learning new skills and new things. Introduce the child to new challenges in baking, debate, spelling, sports, pottery, writing, computer literacy, etc to assess the quality of their strength if it is worth exploiting.

3. Examine the child’s past achievements. Look at laurels, certificates or badges awarded in “best” or first place in a subject or an extra curricula activity; innocuous at the time of achievement but sure indicators of innate special abilities. A scrutiny of these recognitions will help to identify strengths and discover talents.

4. Find the child’s passion and what they enjoy doing: The child may have lot of things they are great at but only one thing they are very passionate about, that is their main talent. Discover the passion and assist to explore it.

5. Consider intangible talents: Talents can be intangible, and may not involve a physical ability. Being the person people turn to when they are in a dilemma, is a talent. It does not have to be a wide circle of friends or family, a few persons your child is frequently in touch with will suffice.

6. Explore what the child does better than the peers: Analyse activities your child performs better than peers. Unique qualities are most often taken for granted.

7. Track the resources invested in an activity. Money and Time are important resources that are tell tale when discovering talents.

8. Unravel the activity (apart from schooling) that takes a lot of the child’s spare time, and make them feel happiest and fulfilled use of social media, web or internet connections, etc. A talent is near to be discovered in whatever absorbs a child’s time, attention and gives pleasure.

9. Examine the child’s collection of books, music, movies, games, etc. It reflects a pattern of what is liked which in turn fires up imagination.

Conclusion

Talents are intrinsic and easy identification in children may be arduous; but many are multi talented. As a parent, once you identify the child’s talent, take this to the next level. Assist to develop them and watch the child become a different person. Talents bring out hidden strengths that give courage and confidence to deal with life’s challenges.

Your Child’s Talents: Catch them young!

Jamila Shu’ara* *Dr.JamilaSHU’ARA,FNIM,FHEPANistheDirectorofAcademicPlanningandStrategy

DAILY ROUTINE OF THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT

FROM FIRST LIGHT (0600HRS) TO LAST LIGHT (1800HRS)

The Security Department of Baze University is anchored on service and integrity. Our mandate is clear: to provide safety in the campus and ensure the protection of lives and properties of everyone in this academic community. The Right to Life is the most fundamental of all human rights, irrespective of age, gender, race, social status or even cultural group. To us every life is precious and safety remains the collective responsibility of everyone. Our core values are derived from the Nigeria’s Motto: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress; and anchored on Baze University Motto: “Learn to Live”. By promoting Unity and Faith, Nigerian citizens are guided in making rational decisions entrenched in justice and fair play which in turn promotes Peace and fosters Progress. Every day, we deploy better ways to live and protect the lives of others.

To ensure that security duties are effectively and efficiently discharged, the Security Department maintains a well structured and regimented daily routine with a robust number of Bootson theground.All security personnel undertake intense physical exercises and ICT Trainings, to enable the Department formulate better ways to deliver services, safeguard ourselves and protect the lives and properties of others.

Consequently, the daily activities of the Security Department are summarized below:

1. Hoisting of Flags at First Light - 0600hrs.

2. Muster Parade 0630hrs to 0645hrs.

3. Handing and taking over duties - 0650hrs to 0700hrs.

4. Breakfast for Operatives 0700hrs to 0800hrs.

5. Baze University working Hours 0900hrs to 1700hrs.

6. Guards Mounting 1730hrs to 1745hrs.

7. Last light and Lowering of Flags 1800hrs (Last light)

8. First sentry or Guards changeover - 2000hrs to 2200hrs.

9. Second Sentry or Guard Changeover 2200hrs to 1200hrs

10.Third Sentry changeover - 1200hrs to 0200hrs

11.Fourth Sentry changeover 0200hrs to 0400hrs

12.Fifth Sentry changeover 0400hrs to 0600hrs

Safety should be the concern of everyone. If you see something, say something. With us at the Security Department, every life is precious, so we never sleep when our constituents go to bed. We operate 24/7 in all duty posts, including Command Centre, CCTV Camera Control Room and in all the Sentry Towers. We ensure that the Baze University community is supported with a peaceful, secured and conducive environment for learning and progress.

Daniel EDIEH*

CONTROL ROOM

*Col.DanielEDIEH(rtd).istheChiefSecurityOfficeroftheUniversity.

COUNSELLING FOR A HEALTHY LIVING V. S TARKA*

Counselling is a profession that helps individuals deal with emotional issues as a result of family conflicts, and educational, vocational, financial, or health problems. The process involves the Counsellor identifying practical solutions to an identified issue while listening more than talking when the client bares their mind about the problem.

Counselling is a process where the counsellor helps the client have a useful conversation that eventually yields solutions to their problems. Counselling is a talk therapy; prescribing, advocating, suggesting and directing. Talk therapy helps people overcome various challenges such as depression, stress, anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and mental, emotional and behavioural issues. The process of therapy provides a confidential, safe, and non judgmental experience that allows free expression of difficult and uneasy challenges with the Counsellor or Therapist.

The first step to counselling is to admit and recognize that you need to change something about yourself or improve a situation where you are a principal actor. It is pertinent to find someone who has used the services of a therapist to help you understand the reason why you need to see one. As a prospective client, search for the right therapist that understands your particular problem or issue. Wherever there is counselling, guidance is involved. Counselling and Guidance go side by side. Guidance is important to equip a client with useful information on how to handle diverse situations in life. Prevention is better than cure. Guidance helps in making choices in life and involves education and career. Those who are yet to make mistakes are guided and those in distress as regards career choices are given comprehensive career guidance through counselling.

The Goals of Counselling include but are not limited to the following:

1.Assist in developing positive practices.

2.Promote behavioural change

3.Help improve the interpersonal relationship

4.Help others enhance their ability and capacity to cope with challenges and solve them

5.Help in goal setting and drawing out potential.

Guidance and counselling sessions allow students to ask questions and clarify difficult situations in their lives. Those having drug challenges, different kinds of abuses and personal hurts are assisted and stabilized through counselling. Counselling brings students and school administration closer to respecting authority and following appropriate channels in the school environment. It also helps students to live in peace and harmony within and outside the school community, adjust and settle comfortably and appreciate their education in a better way

Students or clients are counselled on proper behaviour such as politeness, courteousness, respectfulness and many others. Counselling molds students and inculcates in them, valuable skills of life. During the sessions, guidance is given on how to deal with psychological problems and in the process, clients develop problem solving skills. Counselling can help one to cope with mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression and many other disorders. It can also help one to deal with difficult life situations such as the loss of someone, work stressors, emotional issues, identity challenges, educational problems and other uncomfortable situations and disruptive conditions.

In recent times the need for counselling has become pertinent due to the uptick in the misuse of drugs, suicide and other mental health conditions. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Report in 2021 revealed that about 275 million people misused drugs worldwide, while over 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders. For Nigeria, the report revealed that

there were cases of 14.3 million drug users out of which 3 million suffered from drug use disorder. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) also reports that 40% of Nigerian youths are into drugs. Nigeria is reported to have a large caseload of depression and ranks 15th in the World of Suicide Frequency. According to the World Health Organization, globally, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety at US$ 1 trillion per year in lost productivity.

Counselling helps reduce work stressors associated with busy schedules and assists clients who have experienced traumatic situations to stabilize and continue a healthy life. The issues created by disrupted mental health are invisible and easily ignored, but it reduces one’s well being, so it is imperative that employers, employees and students to pay attention to their bodies to avoid being victims. It is important to pay attention to the challenges at work and at home to avoid mental, emotional or physical breakdowns.

Counselling comes in handy when you need to speak to someone. Counselling is confidential! I encourage everyone to key into counselling. The checklist below will help you assess your mental health status to prompt a visit to a Counsellor:

a. Excessive workload.

b. Undefined schedule/unclear job role.

c. Conflict/violence.

d. Discrimination (cultural, language, gender).

e. Harassment/Bullying (any kind)

f. Unsafe environment

g. Job insecurity

h. Lack of support from colleagues, friends and family.

i. Under or over promotion

j. Social life deficiencies. There is a Counselling Unit at Baze University. You can walk in or pay a scheduled visit. We are located in the Student Support Office and open throughout the week. Phone in services can also be arranged.

*Mrs.V.S.TARKAistheUniversityCounsellorandHeadoftheStudentsSupportUnit.

FOCUS INTERVIEW WITH BAZE UNIVERSITY GOLD STAR PARENTS

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.

My name is Israel Adeogun. I am from Ogun State and I reside in Ota, Ogun State. I retired from Chevron Nigeria Limited in June 2014 after 22 years working for the company. I am a parent of two pioneer students of Baze University.

2. How many of your children have attended/ or are attending Baze University?

Two of my children attended Baze University. They are twins, male and female (Olude Adeogun Software Engineering, graduated 2014 and Adepate Adeogun – Law, graduated 2015). They belong to the pioneer students of Baze University and probably the first set of twins to attend the university.

3. At the outset of scouting for a university, was Baze the University of First Choice? No. In fact, my son had already been given admission to read Electrical/Electronic Engineer ing in Covenant University in Ota where we lived and my daughter was about getting admission to read English in the same University.

4. If yes, what was the motivation? If no, how did your children end up with Baze University?

I got to know about Baze University when I read an interview granted the first Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Michael Hodd, in one of Nigerian newspapers. I was impressed by the mission and vision of the school as outlined by the VC and immediately I started to find out more about the institution. I visited the school to check things out and interact with the principal officers. During my visit, I met with the Pro Chancellor Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed. He took me round the school facilities and further explained to me the plans and programs of the school. He gave me assurance that my children would be well taken care of while in the school. There and then I decided my children would attend the university.

5. Have your expectations on your children’s education at Baze University been met? Give some vivid examples. Absolutely yes. My expectations of the type of education I want for my children were met at Baze University. They were able to study in a multicultural and diverse environment while at Baze University. This experience, among other benefits, has enabled my children to become more liberal in their approach to life, make lasting friendship with people across diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds and improve their self-confidence. In the aspect of academics, they have been able to adapt and perform well during their Master degree programs in Canadian universities.

6. What are the challenges of multiple members of the family attending private university?

The main challenge is finance. The costs of having multiple children in private university is quite high and could be overwhelming for average, middle and low class parents. I want to thank the school management for offering flexible payment terms that is very convenient especially to parents with multiply children in the institution.

7. Have your sacrifices been worthwhile?

Oh yes! The prize at the end is worth the sacrifices.

8. The COVID period was difficult, as a parent, how did you cope with the challenges?

Fortunately my children graduated from the University before the outbreak of Covid 19 pandemic and the shut down of the system did not greatly affect their education.

Have any of your children graduated from Baze University? Where are they now?

The two of them graduated from Baze University in 2014 and 2015.

*Olude Adeogun Software Engineering graduated with First Class in 2014 Olude later studied Master of Engineering (Software Engineering) at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. He is living and working as a Software Engineer in Canada.

*Adepate Adeogun – Law, graduated in 2015. Adepate finished from the Nigeria Law School, Abuja in 2018 and practiced for about 2years. She is currently a student of University of Lethbridge in Canada studying for a second degree in General Management.

10. Would you recommend Baze University to other parents?

Absolutely. I have recommended and I would not hesitate to continue to recommend Baze University to other parents. Presently, my friend’s son is attending Baze University based on my recommendation. I have been visiting the school almost every year since 2011 and on each visit I have seen continuous improvement on both infrastructure and standard.

11. Advice management on how best to improve service delivery in the University?

To improve service delivery in Baze University, I would recommend the following:

Regular and continuous engagement of students and parents on the programmes and activities of the University;

Regular and continuous review of plans and processes to improve performance in all aspects of the University.

Use technology to deliver services and improve on research

Continuous training for both academic and non academic staff.

FOCUS

INTERVIEW WITH BAZE UNIVERSITY GOLD STAR PARENTS

1. Please briefly introduce yourself.

My name is Mrs. Olayinka Folajin, I am a parent of two children (Feranmi and Mayokun) at Baze University and I am also an Alumni.

2. How many of your children have attended/ or are attending Baze University? Two of my children currently studying at Baze University.

3. At the outset of scouting for a university, was Baze the University of First Choice? No, it was not the first choice but it turned out as a good decision for us.

4. If above is yes, what was the motivation? If no, how did your children end up with Baze University?

I had completed my second degree at Baze University; that was the motivation for my chil dren to study there.

5. Have your expectations of your children’s education at Baze been met? Give some vivid examples. So I have So far, so good, Everything has been relatively okay with their education at Baze University.

6. What are the challenges of multiple members of the family attending private university?. For now, I don’t have any challenges with the university.

7. Have your sacrifices been worthwhile?

I am convinced my sacrifices will be worthwhile once my children graduate.

8. The COVID period was difficult, as a parent, how did you cope with the challenges? I just had to follow the rules that the government laid down for that period of time.

9. Have any of the children graduated? Where are they now?

My children are still in the university and are yet to graduate.

10. Would you recommend Baze University to other parents?

Yes I would recommend Baze university to other parents.

11. Advice management on how best to improve service delivery in the University? The Management should complete the Road that leads to the school.

L-R:MrsOlayinkaFolajinwithFeranmi atMatriculation, Mayokunandhisfriendatmatriculation.

Facts You Need To Know About Nigeria

This tribute is to parents who invest in female education. In two years the world witnessed the departure of two great women; one from the seat of government and the other to the great beyond. Angela Merkel a former Chancellor of Germany (2005 2021) goes down in the history as a simple quintessential leader that built the economic prosperity of her country. HRM Elizabeth II (1924 2022), the Queen of England and Head of the Commonwealth: amiable sovereign matriarch who brought humanness, modernity and diversity to monarchy. This is a simple message - Send your girl-child to school; it is a worthy investment.

These educated Nigerian women have put their feet in the sands of time and are worthy of emulation:

1.First ever Nigerian Female Professor Prof. Felicia Adetoun Ogunsheye.

2.First Nigerian Female Vice Chancellor - Prof. Grace Allele-Williams.

3.First Female Vice Chancellor from Northern Nigeria Prof. Gambo Laraba Abdullahi

4.First Female Vice Chancellor from Kano State - Prof. Fatima Batul Mukhtar

5.First Female Professor of Broadcasting in Northern Nigeria Prof Ladi S. Adamu

6.First Female Professor from Old Sokoto Caliphate - Prof. Aishatu Madawaki Isah

7.First Female Professor from Yobe State Prof. Amina Bashir

8.First Nigerian Female Professor of Urban & Regional Planning Prof. Ogbazi Joy Ukamaka.

9.First Nigerian Female Professor of Chemical Engineering -Prof. Philomena Kanwulia Igbokwe

10.First Female Professor of Physics in Africa Prof. Deborah Ajakaye (a Nigerian)

11.First Female Professor of Quantity Surveying in Africa - Prof Olubola Babalola. (a Nigerian)

12.First Female Professor of Physiotherapy in Africa Prof. Arinola O. Sanya. (a Nigerian)

13.First Female Professor of Agric Economics in Africa Prof. Tomilayo O. Adekanye. (a Nigerian)

14.First Female Professor of Yoruba Studies in the World Prof. Omotayo Olutoye (a Nigerian)

*BAZE

FOCUS QED ©

QED is an abbreviation of the Latin words QuodEratDemonstradum, most often used as a notation to prove completion using a Mathematical Formula. When used in narratives; it implies that an Author’s overall argument has just been proven. We provide our esteemed Readers with topical issues on the QED Platform. Baze Focus QED Topic in this edition is GRATITUDE. Enjoy!

Topic – Gratitude

Human nature is propelled by ambition, and daily we all strive for better social status and lives. The concept of capitalism and competition stimulates ambition and a constant drive for higher rewards and recognition in all human beings. In the quest for more, we often forget to be grateful in the present circumstance. Everyone has a reason to be grateful but many see only the big picture and not the leaps. Gratitude is an extreme feeling of thankfulness and appreciation of someone, a situation or an act of good deed or personal accomplishments, instead of tying happiness to when aspirations would be met. Gratitude helps us to appreciate what we have, instead of lamenting on what we do not have. Gratitude is the cup being half full instead of half empty.

The opposite of gratitude is ingratitude. It is the lack of appreciation or thankfulness for an act of kindness or present circumstance. Ingrates are full of negativity, and lament on or about everything: the weather; relationships; financial and health status, hard luck, challenges etc. At the root of all ingratitude is selfishness.

Genuine gratitude admits that every one in the universe is a beneficiary of the unearned bequest of providence. Gratitude is being thankful for everything in one's life: personal and family health and safety, remunerable skills, source of income, friends and family and the resilience to face challenges. The ability to exhilarate gratitude has been scientifically proven to be beneficial. Gratitude strengthens relationships; it improves physical and psychological health; it enhances empathy and reduces aggression; it has calming and relaxing effects on the nervous system; it improves self esteem and increases mental strength.

Where will you rather be? To be grateful for little mercies and get the push to receive more from providence or to go on the blind chase of fantasized needs that may likely not be achieved in a lifetime. QED!!!

IMPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN SPORTS Ibechi MATHEW*

Sporting activities are designed to be for fun, competition or to enhance the general well being of the human body. In all institutions students are encouraged to participate in sports to reduce stress and for the general well being of the human body. For student athletes, combining studies with sports and the expectation of high performance from sponsors put them under undue pressure leading to the temptation of using illicit drugs and the attendant negative consequences.

This Article will assist readers understand the negative effect of performance enhancing drugs in sports so that athletes and their handlers appreciate the preventive rather than the curative use of drugs; the former being relatively less expensive than the latter. It is hoped that this knowledge will dissuade all parties from doping in the first instance.

A drug is a medicine or substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or introduced into the body. It is any substance other than food that alters the chemistry of the body when ingested. Drugs can have negative or positive effects on the brain and the body. It is the reason why drugs are used under the prescription or management of a qualified medical professional. Doping in sports is the administration of drugs on an athlete to inhibit or enhance their sporting performance.

Illicit use of drugs means a person takes drugs illegally or unlawfully without a doctor’s prescription. Illicit use of drugs compromises judgment and physical abilities and makes a person less able to perform a variety of tasks in simple contexts. In sports the pressure to excel, injuries, physical pain, fear of losing put undue pressure on the mental health of athletes and this may lead them to the use of performance enhancing drugs. Drug abuse occurs in all sports

and at most levels of competition. Illicit use of drugs has no place in sports because sportsmen are held to a minimum operating standard.

The use of performance enhancing drugs is detrimental to the health and well-being of athletes. Anabolic steroids are common performance-enhancement drugs in sports and a long period of use has been associated to several health-related problems. Scientific studies show that illicit drugs impair coordination and mental abilities. Here are some examples: a basketball player under the influence of drugs is more likely to miss a game winning free throw while a football receiver under the influence of marijuana is less likely to outrun a defender. Heartbeat, lung capacity, muscle strength and stamina will drop with marijuana use. If a player’s performance is diminished because of the use of drugs, he disappoints his team mates, the coach and others in a few minutes of a false sense of high.

Drugs negatively affect Team’s performance, morale, concentration, commitment, energy, trust and cohesion. Depressant drugs such as cannabis, alcohol and opiates slow down breathing, reduces the capacity of the lungs, so it is harder to get the oxygen the muscles need during sports. Opiates, such as heroin and codeine, slow down the breathing and narrow the airways and make it harder to breathe during sporting activity when the body needs all the extra oxygen. Depressants such as cannabis reduce psychomotor capacity so when used, it becomes hard to coordinate body movements during sport.

Depressants such as alcohol slow down heart rate, meaning less oxygen-rich blood reaches your muscles. The last thing you want during sports is to disrupt the normal circulation of blood or coordination of the muscles. Alcohol is also high in calories, so if you indulge in that, the body starts piling up needless body weight which slows down performance.

Stimulants increase movements so a person on illicit drugs over stretches the natural capacity of the body and is more likely to get injured during sports. Stimulant drugs, such as Cocaine and Ecstasy increase the heart beat and put undue stress on the heart. Cocaine can cause heart attacks and abnormal heart rhythms. Cocaine at high doses acts as anaesthetic, so after injury one may not feel the pain and continue playing, causing even more damage. When you use Speed, the lack of blood in your heart can cause severe chest pain. Stimulants, such as Cocaine and Speed, keep you awake and when your body does not get the needed rest it affects sports performance. Stimulants also decrease the appetite for food, so instead of replacing calories after using so much energy in sports you will only be depleting your stock.

Other side effects of stimulants include confusion, delirium, paranoia, etc. At higher doses stimulants can make you become irritable and aggressive, and may also cause blood vessels in the brain to rupture leading to convulsions.

In a nutshell, in Sports, we maintain a strict policy on the use of drugs because of its dangerous effects on the players and the sports community as a whole. Athletes must therefore understand that there are negative consequences and repercussions on the use of illicit drugs. Sports will become meaningless and the general public will lose interest if athletes are simply doping to enhance their performance.

*IbechiMATHEWisthePrincipalCoachofBazeUniversity

Be An English Language Expert!

Antonyms

Synonyms are words that have meanings similar to one another. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of another word. There are different types of Antonyms:

Complementary and Binary pairs are absolute opposite of the other word, and there is no room for confusion (dead or alive)

Gradable antonyms are generally at opposite ends of a scale (ugly & beautiful).

Reverse or relational antonyms - known by their reverse relationship to each other (parent & offspring)

Add a Prefix Antonym eg ‘dis’ or ‘un’ will form (able & unable, familiar & unfamiliar) Importance of Antonyms

is free but so expensive!

Nigerian Slangs

BE INSPIRED

is when evening comes that an unlucky Trader knows he invested in a bad market!

do everything solo, having good people by your side can be a big advantage.

No matter how smart you think you are, there is always something new to be learned about life.

person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. If you walk alone, you will likely find yourself in places no one has ever been before.” AlbertEinstein

Remember graveyards are full of inhabitants who once imagined the world cannot do without them!

CAMPUS LIFE IN PICTURES

PRESIDENT LAW STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (LAWSA) 2022/2023

Name: Asiya K. GARBA

ID Number: BU/19C/LAW/3796

State of Origin: Katsina

LGA: Mashi

Hobbies: Writing, Painting, cooking and swimming Goals:

To provide capacity building initiatives through partnerships and collaborations with organizations, NGOs and agencies.

To promote positive work ethics and mental alertness in students by getting them actively involved in extra curriculum activities as well as organizing leadership seminars and workshops for Law Students.

To upgrade the image of Law Faculty, improve the welfare of Law students and make LAWSA the face of Baze University.

Achievements and Projects Executed:

Career Day Programme

Instituted a Legislative and Judicial Arm in Law Faculty. Established Moot and Mock Debate club. Partnership with Y.C Maikayu ICMC Boot camp Training Moot and Mock Boot camp Training. Passed a new and improved constitution for LSS Baze University.

EYED BEANS DUMPLING

Vegetable/beef sauce.

Sliced Vegetables onions, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumber.

Ground cayenne pepper (yaji)

Ground All Spice Seasoning (Suya Pepper)

1.Grind dry beans into flour, add Baobab leaves (kuka) powder, a pinch of potash and mix properly. Dan wake flour can be purchased from local markets in Northern Nigeria. Add a little water into flour mix to make a thick paste.

2.Bring water to boil in a deep pot and once it starts to boil, form the paste into small balls and drop into the boiling water. Allow the dumplings to cook for about 10mins (balls will float in the pot when cooked).

3.Strain water from the dumplings and rinse with cold water. Turn it into a bowl to prepare for serving.

To Serve

Fry groundnut oil with onions and seasoning cubes, include chillies. Sprinkle on Dan wake and serve with salad, boiled eggs or cucumbers mixed with fresh cherry tomatoes. Bon appetite!

ABACHA(AFRICANSALAD)

Abacha(Africansalad)isamealthatisnativetotheIgbosinNigeriabutitsdistinctivetastehas madeitafavouritemenuenjoyedbyalltribes.InIgboland,onspecialoccasionssuchaswedding,Abachaisusuallyreservedforspecialguests.Itisusuallyserved withPalmwine,(alocalbeverage)butcanalsobeservedwithany chilleddrinkofchoice.

Ingredients 1. 300 g Abacha (dried shredded cassava) 2. 100g Ugba (Ukpaka) 3. 200 ml Palm Oil 4. 2 tablespoonful ground Crayfish

Soak the Abacha in cold water for 10 minutes until it softens, then pour boiling water over it and drain.

Rinse the ugba with warm water. Drain. Dissolve the potash in water and sieve the water. Stir the potash water with the palm oil in a pot until it forms a yellowish paste. Place on heat and add the ground ehuru, pepper, crayfish and seasoning. Stir, and then add crushed stock cubes, diced onions and ugba. Take off the heat. Add the Abacha and mix, then add meat and fish, allowing the ingredients to blend. Add sliced utazi and salt to taste.

HEALTH WISE - Health is Wealth!

WALKINGeffective anti depressant. Take a daily dose.

HEALTHY LIVING KEEP WALKING

1. Walking is the single most popular form of exercise in the entire universe. It can be done by anyone, anywhere and almost anytime. Studies have shown that walkers who burned the same number of calories as runners saw identical cardiovascular health benefits, plus the same reduced risk of hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Walking helps you burn calories, build muscle while also boosting your mood.

2. In the human body, the two legs have 50% of the nerves of the body, 50% of the blood vessels and 50% of the blood of the body flowing through them. The legs have the largest circulatory network connecting the body, so medical practitioners recommend we all walk daily.

3. When you exercise your feet they remain healthy because the current of blood flows smoothly, it, therefore, resonates that people who exercise their legs regularly have strong leg muscles that aid a strong heart.

4. Ageing starts from the feet upwards. In young people the accuracy and speed of transmitting instructions between the brain and the legs are high but as one gets older, it decreases; this is why the elderly and senior citizens should maintain a routine of walking to constantly exercise the legs.

5. It is advisable to walk at least 10,000 steps daily to strengthen the legs and slow down ageing. You can walk for at least thirty to forty minutes to ensure that the muscles of the legs remain healthy.

KEEP WALKING!

Fagara zanthoxyloides

‘Orin Ata’

Fagara zanthoxyloides (akaZanthoxylum zanthoxyloides) is a shrub whose trunks, branches, branchlets, leaf stalks and inflorescence axes are covered by prickles or thorns with dense, dark green foliage. The thorns extend to the leaf stalks and the leaflets midribs and the leaves are slightly obovate. The flowers are greenish-white in narrow axillary and terminal panicles usually without thorns. It fruits between July and September.

In Nigeria, Fegara has a popular use; roots, young shoots and twigs are used as chewing sticks. It is hot and peppery; the reason it is called “Orin ata” by Yorubas. When chewed in the mouth, the roots give a warm, pungent, benumbing effect with profuse salivation, believed to be beneficial to the elderly and persons with sore gums and other oral diseases. A decoction of the roots is also used as mouthwash and sore throat. Traditional medical practitioners use it to treat a wide range of disorders like toothache, urinary and venereal diseases, rheumatism and lumbago.

Fagara zanthoxyloides is used for the management of sickle cell disease. In the 1970s, late Abayomi Sofowora, a Professor of Pharmacognosy at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, discovered the anti sickling property of Fagara. Some of the metabolites of Fegara have also shown cytotoxic, molluscicidal, anticonvulsant, anti sickling, anaesthetic, antibacterial, anti-hypertensive and anti inflammatory properties.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE!

EXPENSIVE PACKAGING

My sister don’t be fooled by men. Not every man that wears a suit is rich, some of them are choirmasters.

CONFIDENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Boy: Dad, what’s the difference between confident and confidential?

Dad replied: You are my son, I am confident about that. Your friend standing over there is also my son, but that is a confi- dential matter.

A LADY WITH SEVERAL PET NAMES ON INTERNET ATTENDED A JOB INTERVIEW. Lady good afternoon sir

Interviewer Good day, Miss Lepa shandy, hottest bae.

Advice Lady, you just lost the job! Get wise, not all the information you post is fit for the internet.

A BAD PERSON IS NOT TOTALLY USELESS

No matter how bad a person is; he is not useless. He can still be cited as a bad example that other people should avoid.

LYING FROM THE BEGINNING

I learned how to lie from the primary school, my class teacher would ask me to write a letter to my uncle in America when she knows that my uncle is in the village.

NO MORE FREE FOOD

Everything has become so expensive in Nigeria that even witches don’t serve food any more in dreams. If you think I am lying, when last did you eat in your dreams?

MEMORY FAILURE SINCE MARRIAGE

Young man asked Old man: Sir, even after 70 years of age, you still call your wife honey, darling, and sweetheart… what’s the secret?

Old man replied: Shortly after I married her, I forgot her name and I am still scared to ask.

MORTGAGE IS THE GAUGE

Daughter Mum, how old are you?

Mother - Older than most mortgages!

Nigerian

point

1. “Escort me, escort me” na so slave trade take start.

Meaning: Be careful of the kind of association you make.

2. Table no dey turn, na who get sense dey change him chair.

Meaning: Get up and work instead of waiting for handouts

3. Village wey the only barber na lion, all the goats there go keep afro.

Meaning: Everyone avoids any particular troublemaker

4. Pikin wey like party rice, no suppose to fear dance.

Meaning: Don’t be afraid to chase what you want.

5. Lean on me, no be press me die.

Meaning: Don’t over stretch the hand of good will.

6. “I no go gree, I no go gree” Na im dey tear shirt.

Meaning: Be careful with arguments; less they escalate into fisticuff.

7. No matter how lizard dey do press up, e no go get chest like alligator.

Meaning: Your pride will take you nowhere.

8. The difference between kpekereand plantain chips na packaging

Meaning: The way you present yourself matters a lot.

9. You know who I be? I go show you who I am. Na so traffic jam for dey take start.

Meaning: stop grand standing!

Nigerian Proverbs in Pidgin English

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CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STUDENTS’ HOSTELS ON CAMPUS

In April 2022, Baze University commenced the construction of additional Students’ Hostels to take care of the rising number of students needing accommodation on campus. The new Hostels are Two Blocks of three floors with 700 bed space capacity fitted with bespoke facilities including lounges, kitchenette, washrooms, courtyards, etc. The project which is expected to be completed by the first quarter of the year 2023, is under the supervision of the Deputy Vice chancellor (Administration) David Ogbonna, Esq.

CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STUDENTS’ HOSTELS ON CAMPUS

The New Students’ Hostel Project is under the supervision of the Deputy Vice-chancellor (Administration) David Ogbonna, Esq.

DEAR ALUMNI

Congratulations for all that you have achieved. We look forward to staying in touch. You will enjoy being a part of the Alumni Network.

STAY CONNECTED: +234(0)905 990 3718. Email: alumni@bazeuniversity.edu.ng Website: www.alumni.bazeuniversity.edu.ng or search: ‘Baze Alumni’ on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn

of Baze University Receives National Honour

ALUMNUS

Name Gabriel O.C Okenwa, Baze University Class of 2020 (Law First Class) was recently conferred with the National Honour of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). Accomplishment: very prudent with the use of public funds. Present Position: Visiting Professor, Veritas University Abuja & Special Technical Adviser/Consultant, NSITF.

POETRY & THE SILENT CORNER

We Had All But the Wine Grapes

We had all but the wine grapes, Far off to the left of the suburb, To one side of our sweet stream. In the thorough wet of season, The water moans, sighs & vomits, Too full of its sublime contents.

Pine surpasses himself this round; As he fords the stream knee high. The wine grapes tree dot the land; Pronounced, as dirt on white linen And its full, tempting succour pats The earth, as if to offer testimony, Saying how blessed it is by its own. The wine grapes with us as piston And rings, we were brimful of glee, Piping a tune and erupting talents, From around a merry, merry world.

IN EVERGREEN MEMORY

It is with heavy hearts and in evergreen memory, that we announce the passage of the following: May their gentle souls rest in perfect peace.

ANDREW

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